I Slacked Off in the Great Tang, Yet Everyone Took Me for an Immortal

When Li Xian wakes up, he finds himself the sickly illegitimate son of the Duke of Wei's household in the Tang Dynasty.

Having worked himself to death in his previous life, he decides to lie flat and enjoy life this time around.

Yet the camp bed he casually improves is hailed by the Minister of War as “the ultimate weapon for marching and waging war.”

The stir-fry he comes up with just to get a decent meal is acclaimed by the imperial chefs as “the key to a new era of cuisine.”

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which he writes out of sheer boredom, is regarded by the emperor as “an imperial guide brimming with military strategies and tactics”...

When the Tang Dynasty, thanks to his well-intentioned but unintended efforts, becomes a global empire more than a thousand years ahead of schedule,

Li Xiao stares at Li Shimin and the assembled court officials, who have come to ask him to ascend the throne, and falls into deep thought:

I just wanted to quietly be a good-for-nothing. Why is that so hard?